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In the December duplicating post, Joyce asked: My question concerns formulating, in reading your blog you state when formulating a recipe, x%=xgrams. i have recently seen recipes with odd %’s, for ex. 0.80%. How do you measure .80 grams? Do we drop the 0 & make it .8grams, do we round up to 1 gram,...
Yesterday, we took a look at how changes in oils and preservatives might impact a lotion. What else could be an issue here? Fragrance and essential oils aren’t inert ingredients: We know vanilla can make things brown, but it can also thin out a product thanks to the vanillin. This is why we may have...
Yesterday’s question relates well to the one posted posed on Patreon by Omitade: I have a very basic question, probably answered somewhere. I recently purchased Panthenol Liquid and what I realized is that I don’t really understand how the recipe changes when you use liquid or dry ingredient of the same thing. I make a lotion...
I’m still working my way through my e-mail and comments. I’m currently on Novemer 19th for comments and in early November for mail. Thank you for your continued patience. In this post, Preservatives, tafchk asks: How do you know how many drops to use for a given percentage please? The short answer is that we...